The Hard Facts

From The Wet and the Dry by Lawrence Osborne

"The Balkins though drink less than the Finns; the Italians and Spanish are outdone by the Germans and the French. In Russia one in every five male deaths is by alcohol. Two and a half million people die every year, we are told, because of drink. Alcoholism is now classified as a "disease". It is like cancer or rabies. Its sufferers are helpless and its pathogens rage through their bodies; their sickness is passed on genetically from generation to generation"

Try not to drink to much Eggnog.